Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has sacked his Chief of Staff, Emeka Woke, and his Senior Special Assistant on Protocol, Harold Koko. This is just as Governor Wike dissolved the state executive council. The latest development was disclosed via a statement...
Barely two months after the Kaduna International Airport was shut, following an attack by suspected terrorists, commercial flights resumed operations at the airport on Monday. The Star had reported that suspected terrorists, on March 26, attacked the Kaduna airport located...
The Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos State, on Monday, sentenced a policeman, Mohammed Alidu, to life imprisonment for defiling a 9-year-old school girl in a barrack The presiding judge, Justice Abiola Soladoye, in her judgement, held...
A former governor of Jigawa State, Saminu Ibrahim Turaki, has won Jigawa North-West Senatorial District primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Turaki, who rejoined PDP recently, was the governor of the state from 1999 to 2007. However, a former...
The refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act amendment bill that would have permitted statutory delegates to vote has altered the voting strength of some states, reports revealed. Section 12.1 of the All Progressives Congress (APC) constitution says...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has announced that the party’s governorship and state Houses of Assembly primaries would hold on Thursday, May 26, 2022. The APC also stated that the party’s senatorial and House of Representatives primaries would hold on...
The management of Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado-Ekiti, has announced that academic activities in the institution would resume on Tuesday, May 24. The management made this known via a statement issued by the Head, Directorate of Information and Corporate Affairs,...
The House of Representatives has postponed its resumption earlier scheduled for Tuesday, May 24, 2022, to Tuesday, June 7, 2022, over the ongoing political party's primaries across the country. The Clerk of the House of Reps, Dr Yahaya Danzaria, made...
Popular Nigerian singer, Olubankole Wellington, well known as Banky W, was on Monday declared winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primaries for Eti-Osa Federal Constituency House of Representatives ticket for the 2023 general election. Banky W had a landslide...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Monday re-arraigned former Minister of Finance, Bashir Yaguda, and four others before the High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, for alleged misappropriation of N23.3 billion. Others arraigned by the EFCC include former...